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Freedomain with Stefan Molyneux

Stefan Molyneux

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🗓️ 1 August 2025

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, I explore a listener's conflict over circumcision for his future son, navigating the clash between cultural norms and bodily autonomy. The caller shares his traumatic experience, prompting a discussion on the ethical implications of the practice and the importance of personal choice. We also address the need for reason over tradition in marital decisions and expand the conversation to societal issues, including free speech in the UK. The episode concludes with insights on relationships and the value of mutual support in partnerships.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Yo-yo, everybody, hope you doing well. It is Stefan von Molyneux Forehead from

0:09.0

freetomane.com. And I hope you're doing well. Hope you're having a lovely day. I hope you're

0:14.8

enjoying the, well, here in Ontario, the not-so-inconsiderable heat wave. The kind of heat wave that happens when I take off my shirt, assuming I've been microwaved.

0:28.1

All right.

0:29.0

So it's your show, questions, comments, issues, challenges, problems, criticisms, whatever

0:35.4

is on your mind that you think is worth running through my

0:38.8

chatterbox philosophy brain, I am all ears. In fact, I'm so all ears. I could fly over a circus

0:47.2

Dumbo elephant style. I'm here for you. All right, let's go straight into Spanish sounding name person.

0:56.5

What's a new mind?

0:58.0

How's it going?

0:59.9

Pretty good.

1:00.6

I didn't expect to get picked, but since I'm here, I guess I would like to ask you a pretty specific question.

1:10.7

So I'm 25 years old. I recently got married.

1:13.8

And I'm a Muslim and my wife is also Muslim, of course. And we're talking about kids and everything and planning about that and thinking about all of that. And so for my wife, she kind of really wants to circumcise my son.

1:32.1

If we have a son, she says he should get circumcised.

1:38.0

But I'm against it for various reasons.

1:41.2

I think maybe you know him, but basically just the general idea that we cut off males,

1:48.9

you know, body parts seems pretty insane, just, you know, as a basic reason.

1:56.1

But my wife thinks it's normal.

1:59.1

I mean, she says it's a cultural thing. It's what we all do and what we're

2:04.0

supposed to do. And I'm sure she wants to continue doing that, but I'm against it. And we kind of left it

2:11.0

off at the state where, I mean, I gave her all my arguments and I told you why we shouldn't do it.

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